Suzanne is a noted French musicologist. This book, she wrote, argues that the accentual system preserved in the Masoretic Text was originally a method of recording hand signals, known as chironomy. She attempts to explain how the temple musicians were directed with these hand signals during the performance of music.


Suzanne also explains how she attempted to present these theories through reconstructing these hand signal notations for performance of haunting and beautiful music in live concerts.


If you are not a musician this book may not make sense, but active musicians are bound to be quite absorbed, fascinated and even shocked by what is presented here.


I can also see a connection to this and the Ogham language of Ireland, which arrived as a sign language with the Tuatha De Dannan. The "Signs of David" and the "Signs Of Ogma" seem to have so much in common. Its as if music and language came to us from the Tribe Of Dan due to their legendary belief that God created the world with musi

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Product Description

This is a translation by Dennis Weber, edited by John Wheeler and jointly published with King David's Harp, in which a noted French musicologist argues that the accentual system preserved in the Masoretic Text was originally a method of recording hand signals (chironomy) by which temple musicians were directed in the performance of music. She explains her reconstruction of these notations which has allowed her to perform haunting and beautiful music around the worlds using only the Hebrew text as a score.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1010323 in Books
• Published on: 1991-12-01
• Original language: French
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 557 pages

About the Author
Suzanne Haik-Vantoura